Hair waving wrapper



May 19, 1931. w. s. WATTS HAIR WAVING WRAPPER Filed Dec. 22, 1928 7212672 ZZ/arrerofl Patented May 19, 1931 UNITED STATES WARREN S. WATTS, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO ARLETTE, INQ,

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE PATENT OFFICE.-

HAIR W'AVING WRAPPER Application filed December 22, 1928. Serial No. 327,808.

The present invention has to do with a device used for encasing a lock of hair which hasbeen twisted or rolled upon an iron for forming in such lock of hair what is known as a permanent wave. The invention resides particularly in the structural details of such an encasing device.

The article hereinafter described and il lustrated overcomes diificulties encountered in connection with devices used for similar purposes, and provides an unique arrangement of parts possessing advantages over earlier forms. It possesses an adaptability for production as an article of manufacture, at very low cost. In addition to providing such advantages in manufacture, the article has a very pleasing appearance.

The objects of the invention include,

among others, the following:

A wrapper of hair sachet pleasing to the eye, durable in construction, and economical of manufacture.

A wrapper of sachet simple in structural features and formed of components readily manufactured separately and subsequently assembled.

Improved structural features facilitating superior curling action upon the hair.

An unique casing for an absorbent pad which provides means for conveniently registering a metal sheet therewith;

A casing for a metal sheet and a pad and having the pad holding member integral herewith; and

A casing for metallic foil extending behind an absorbent pad and comprising a simplified assembly of parts.

The objects hereinabove referred to, and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, are obtained by the novel construction,

arrangement, and combination of the several elements forming the article herein described and fully illustrated.

One form only of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying single sheet of drawings hereby made a part of this application, and in which Figure 1 is a planview of a blank used for forming the casing;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view of the end portions of the blank shown in Figure 1, partially assembled and illustrating the method of forming the pocket therein, I

Figure 3 is a plan view of the metallic foil sheet used in association with-the cas- Figure 4 is a plan view of the textile pad which is adapted to be associated with the casing and foil; I

Figure 5 is a plan view of an assembled sachet; and

Figure 6 is a transverse section of the completed sachet shown in Figure 5 and is taken on the line 55 thereof.

Like reference characters are used to designate similar parts in the drawings and in the description of the article hereinafter given. I

Reference should be had first to Figure 1. In said figure, there is shown a blank which may be parchment or other paper or of other suitable sheet material selected for this purpose. v The numeral 10 is used to designate the main body portion of said blank. This particular section of the body is of greater area than any of the remaining sections of the casing blank. Section 10 and the adjacent portion forming the inside of the finished sachet are separated by a fold in the assembled device represented in Figure 1 by a dotted line 11. Such inside 7 portion is marked 12, and one face of section 10 forms the exposed back'portion of such sachet.

Appended to section 10 is an extension 13 which comprises, in the assembled device, one layer or lamination of an envelope or pocket formed in conjunction with the material at the other end of the blank.

Depending from the opposite side of the I blank and appended to section 12 and separated therefrom by a V-shaped incision 14 is such portion of the blank asis employed for the formation of a pocket to receive a pad, such pocket forming section including a projecting section 15 which is generally rectangular and which forms the back of such pocket. When assembled, this section is folded on the dotted line 16.

Intermediate sections 12 and 15 and separated therefrom is a windowed section 17, the opening therein being designated 18. Such Window is of any suitable size, but should not be so large that a pad to be inserted into the pocket may accidentally slip therefrom. The proportions of the window 18 to section 17 shown in the drawing are generally satisfactory.

At each end of the section 17 and se arated therefrom by folds represented y dotted lines 19 and 20, are lateral extensions 21. To form a pocket, designated as a whole 22, the section 12 is folded forwardly on the fold line 11 and over the member 10, after which'the ends 21 are folded upon the lines 19 and to lap over and upon the back of section 13. Ends 21 are adhesively secured to section 13, and then member 15 is folded on line 16 and adhesively applied over ends 21 and the remaining exposed section of member 13. Thus the pocket 22 is formed, there being an opening 18 in the one layer front 17 of said pocket, and a lam inated back comprising sections 13, 21 and 15. The manner of folding the blank, shown in Figure 1 whereby to obtain pocket 22 is best illustrated in Figure 2. This assembly is made only with the foil sheet hereinafter described in its proper relation to the casing sections.

Figure 3 illustrates a sheet of foil material 30 having an extension portion 31, these two sections being integral. For convenience of description, an imaginary divisiona1 line-32, in dots, is shown. The portion 30 corresponds with section 10 of the casing blank and in the assembled article extends approximately to the right-hand edge thereof as shown in Figure 1, but does not extend quite to the left hand edge thereof. Normally the foil reaches to approximately one-half inch from the left-hand edge of said section 10. It is not desirable to have metal or metallic foil come into direct contact with the human scalp, hence there is a small amount of clearance at the left-hand end of section 10 and over which the foil sheetdoes not extend.

The foil which is employed may be plain foil or it may be a backed foil. hen backed foil is used, it may have a paper backing. Preferably a backing is employed, for this diminishes the amount of metal required because "thinner metal may be used and it reduces the danger of damage to the foil sheet without disturbing the other characteristics which make foil desirable for use in hair sachets. V

In assembling the device, the foil extension 31 is inserted into pocket 22. When a backed foil is used the metal surface is up permost. Vhen thereis a backing'upon the foil, such backing will come directly in contact with the inner face "of portion 10 of thecasing, and the backing on section 31 of the foil will come into contact with the inner face of portion 13 of the pocket. When so inserted and disposed, the casing is assembled as previously directed.

Reference will now be had to Figure 4:. This shows a pad of absorbent material upon. which a solution used. for softening and/or curling the hair is disposed. Such solution may be of any of the usual ingredients now employed or any which may-be discovered in the future. The pad generallycomprises a highly absorbent material like felt enclosed within a harder material like that em loyed for bandages or surgical gauze. l' iile the core or interior portion of the pad is generally a section of soft felt, any other absorbent material may be employed without departing from the spirit of the invention. The entire pad is designated 40, and it is adapted to be inserted into and is inserted into pocket 22 in assembling the complete device, the back of the pad 40 resting upon the front surface of the section 32 of the foil sheet. The front portion of such pad 40 is almost wholly exposed through the window 18.

For holding the pad 40 within the pocket in envelope22 and for holding the foil extension 31 also therein, a single stitching or a staple 41 shown in Figure 5, is all that is necessary, for the foil is held against displacement by the structure of the casing, although subject to relatively slight movements within the casing until the staple 41 is inserted.

Preliminary to use, the pad 40 may be charged inany of the conventional manners. It may be dipped into a solution which is to be usedthereon, or such solution may be made to impregnate the pad by the use of a pipette, a measuring device, or any other selected instrumentality whereby such solution is transferred from a container -to the pad 40. As it is now recognized that a definite quantity of a solution of any fixed characteristic should be employed for each curl, it is quite usual to pour a measured quantity of the selected solution upon a pad 40. V

In the finished sachet, when in flat form, thereis exposed a section of foil 30 several inches in breadth and approximately one inch in length and having the casing at the back side only thereof. This right-hand end of the sachet, Figure 5, is twisted or crimped about or beyond said rod, there belng sufiicient body in the sheet of foil to insure that such sachet, when so crimpcd,

will 'permanentlybe held about the lock of curled hair until the proper time for its removal after the-heat of the hair curling machine has been applied thereto.

The sachet, after the pad 40 therein has been moistened, is wrapped about a lock of hair which is twisted upon a suitable curling rod or iron. That part of the sachet comprising two thicknesses of paper without an intermediate foil section is disposed adjacent to the scalp. The pad portion 40, of course, is the first portion to be wrapped about the hair. WVhen the entire sachet is wrapped around the curled lock of hair upon the curling rod or iron about which the hair is twisted, the hair and iron are covered.

Such a sachet as is here illustrated provides an impervious section through which the moisture from the pad 40, even when converted into steam, cannot readily escape to the outside atmosphere. It thus insures the full benefit of the moisture contained in the pad for steaming and curling the hair and the whole efiect of the chemical ingredients employed thereon for the treatment or softening of the hair.

As presented, the device comprises three sections, each adapted to be produced separately in a machine, there being a relatively simple assembly therebetween. One fastening number is all that is required to maintain the three parts in their assembled relation, thus, the cost of production and assembly is very much reduced.

1 claim:

1. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising a body section having an extension at one side thereof folded to form a pocket to receive an absorbent pad.

2. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising a body of material adapted to be folded to provide a casing for a sheet adapted to be inserted therein, there being integral extensions adapted to project from said body to provide a pocket at one side to receive an absorbent pad.

3. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising sheet material adapted to be folded upon itself to provide a casing, each section of said material having an extension, one of said extensions having a window therein and being adapted with another extension to form an open sided pocket to receive an absorbent pad.

4L. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising sheet material cut and folded to provide a casing, one of said case sections havin an extension adapted to form the lining of a pocket, and another of said case sections having an apertured portion disposable upon said lining to provide a window in said pocket.

5. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising a blank adapted to be folded upon itself to provide a casing for an inserted sheet, said blank having at each end an extension cooperating with the extension upon the other end to form an open sided pocket having a plurality of thicknesses of material at the back thereof.

6. A sachet for hair waving comprising a sheet of material cut and folded to form a body section having an extension at one side providing a pocket to receive an absorbent pad, there being a plurality of layers of material at one side of said pocket.

7 A sachet for hair waving comprising a sheet of material adapted to be folded to provide a flat casing, said sheet having integral extensions projecting therefrom to form a pocket, and said extensions being secured one to the other to surround an absorbent pad.

8. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising sheet material adapted to be folded upon itself to provide a two layer fiat casing, each layer having an extension, one of said extensions having an aperture therein, and the other being solid whereby to form an open sided pocket to receive a pad adapted to absorb a hair waving solution.

9. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising sheet material cut to provide when folded a flat two sided casing within which a foil sheet may be inserted, one of said sides having an extension adapted to form the lining of a pocket, and the other of said sides having an apertured and winged extension disposable over and about said lining extension to provide therewith an open sided pocket.

10. A blank for forming a sachet for hair waving and comprising a sheet adapted to be folded upon itself to provide a casing, a metal foil sheet in said casing, said blank having a plurality of extensions cooperating one with another to form an open sided pocket having a plurality of thicknesses of material at the back thereof, one of said extensions having a plurality of projecting sections foldable over another extension and adapted to be adhesively secured thereto.

11. A sachet for hair waving comprising sheet material cut and folded to form a body section of two layers and having extensions providing a pocket to receive an absorbent pad, one of the extensions having an aperture therein and projections therefrom folded over and adhesively secured to the other of said extensions.

12. A sachet for hair waving comprising contiguous sheets of material to provide a fiat casing for foil inserted therebetween, each sheet of said casing having an extension projecting therefrom to form'a pocket, one of said extensions being substantially rectangular, and the other being of the same configuration and having an aperture therein and wings adhesively secured to the first named extension to surround an absorbent pad and provide a window in said pocket therefor.

WARREN S- WATTS. 

